Investigators say a woman fatally shot one of two intruders during a home invasion near Tampa.Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Major Frank Losat tells news outlets that two men broke into the home in Lithia Wednesday night and made demands of the residents.“They came in heavily hooded and masked. As soon as they had got the back door opened, they had a pistol on me and was grabbing my 11-year-old daughter,” resident Jeremy King told Bay News 9. “I’m telling them, ‘I have nothing for you,’" King explained. "(A)nd they’re like, ‘Give me everything you got.’ It became real violent, real fast.”King said when one of the intruders began pistol-whipping him, his wife, who is eight months pregnant, retrieved her legally owned AR-15.“When he came toward the back door in her line of sight, she clipped him,” King said. “He made it from my back door to roughly 200 feet out in the front ditch before the AR did its thing.”Arriving deputies found one suspect’s body in a nearby ditch. The other fled in a vehicle. Authorities were searching for him early Thursday."Them guys came in with two normal pistols and my AR stopped it,” King said. “(My wife) evened the playing field and kept them from killing me."King said he suffered "a fractured eye socket, a fractured sinus cavity, a concussion, 20 stitches" and needed three staples in his head after the attack.The Tampa Bay Times reports investigators believe the family was targeted and the home invasion was not random.Related video below: 11-year-old stops intruder with macheteThe Associated Press contributed to this report

TAMPA, Fla. —

Investigators say a woman fatally shot one of two intruders during a home invasion near Tampa.

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Major Frank Losat tells news outlets that two men broke into the home in Lithia Wednesday night and made demands of the residents.

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“They came in heavily hooded and masked. As soon as they had got the back door opened, they had a pistol on me and was grabbing my 11-year-old daughter,” resident Jeremy King told Bay News 9.